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what application has cpuinfo?

10-11-2012, 09:26 PM

I found hardware information similar to my Asus 1015PX at http://openbenchmarking.org/system/1...IN555623/erwin
Erwin ran tools such as cmdline, cpuinfo, meminfo and modules. With Fedora installed and then using a live CD of Parted Magic, Ubuntu, Inquisitor and PTS Desktop Live 2010.1, I opened a terminal and ran cmdline, cpuinfo, meminfo and modules but PTS does not know these tools. What application or distro are these commands in?

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They aren't applications, they are just readable files that store hardware info. They are all located in the /proc directory. So if you wanted to view them you would type "cat /proc/cpuinfo" for example.

It detects 4 CPU's because that processor is dual core with hyperthreading (2 physical cores, but 4 threads), which means the OS can schedule 4 processes at a time on it. The 2 extra threads are seen as CPU's and are considered logical CPU's. Some detection software can detect it wrong and say there are 4 physical cores, which there aren't.